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March 16, 2021

Three Things You Can do to Make Your Data Tables More Visual

By Jonathan Schwabish

Tables are different from graphs and charts. Charts are meant to present a quick, visual representation of data. But tables are drill-downs, an outlay of all the data down to their exact values or estimates. Tables are not always the...

January 4, 2021

Five Charts You’ve Never Used but Should

By Jonathan Schwabish

“An excellent primer for anyone who wants to display quantitative information clearly and powerfully.” —Robert B. Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, and former U.S. secretary of labor Today’s AEA featured post comes to use...

January 3, 2021

Browse our AEA Virtual Book Exhibit with Christian Pizarro Winting

Welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for the 2021 American Economic Association annual meeting. I am Christian Pizarro Winting, the editor for CUP’s books in economics. This last year has been an undoubtedly tough one for all,...

January 1, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 Economics Catalog

Letter from the editor: 2020 has undoubtedly been a year of significance for the field of economics. The pandemic has presented unique challenges to the implementation of effective policies, and the field has come under close scrutiny as opinions vary...

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Tag: Better Data Visualizations

Three Things You Can do to Make Your Data Tables More Visual

By Jonathan Schwabish

Five Charts You’ve Never Used but Should

By Jonathan Schwabish

Browse our AEA Virtual Book Exhibit with Christian Pizarro Winting

Announcing Our 2021 Economics Catalog